On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> > I'm real tempted to change the default size limit in mplex to be 0
> > (infinite) - 2GB in the era of creating DVDs is just too small.
>
> Well, kind of. Larger files have a number of potential issues,
> including incompatibility with software players, and the inability for
Still? MPlayer handles large files fine. What software
players have problems I wonder?
But I do know of one problem - seems the 'ftpd' on SuSE 8.2
balks at files >2GB so yes, there are lingering 32bit problems
in some programs it seems.
> Linux to cope with large files over NFS and stuff...
Shouldn't be a problem - NFSv3 and all that. Besides, the DV
files I've been tossing around are in the 20GB range (on a SuSE
system).
> I would suggest that a good default for DVD stuff is the 1GB mark.
*that* is the DVD authoring program's job as it is creating the
VOB files. In fact presenting multiple smaller files to
dvdauthor _will not work_. Each track on a DVD must come from
a single file - it's a FEP (Frequently Encountered Problem ;))
on the dvdauthor mailing list (and this one too as I recall).
Even DVD Studio Pro behaves that way - each .m2v file goes into
a separate 'track' in which chapters are created. Thus a 4GB
.m2v file is needed and not 4 1GB files.
Thus single larger files are a necessity when creating DVDs for
standalone players. Creating multiple 1GB files will completely
frustrate folks trying to use DVD authoring software.
Besides, -S can always be used to set the desired size. What I
was thinking of was changing the default. 2000MB is an awkward
size - it's vastly more than a SVCD/VCD needs but inadequate for
a DVD.
Cheers,
Steven Schultz
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